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November 30, 2006: Shirley Walker Dies Aged 61 Composer Shirley Walker, best known for her television work on "Superman: The Animated Series" and "Batman: The Animated Series", has died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 61. Shirley was reportedly a wonderfully sweet, kind and generous woman, who will be missed by all those who knew her. Here's another one:http://www.soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=872

Since this thread really started in the Batman Beyond S2 review thread, I thought it'd be appropriate to announce here that, sadly, Shirley Walker has passed. Just thought some of you might want to know.

I know i'm not the only one who was totally chocked when the academy decided to skip nominating his work for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, or for Kingdom of Heaven for that matter.

Elliot Goldenthal is pretty underrated. his music was the ONLY good thing about "Batman and Robin".

use to love Zimmer but he broke my heart with "Batman Begins". turns out a lot of the stuff was stolen from either his past scores or stole it from composers in his media venture family. the new two note batman theme is stolen from Ramin's two note theme for Blade in "Blade 3" and the training montage music is pretty much a slowed down version of the opening music from "The Island". I didn't mind the "Backdraft" copy pasting that he did in the Batmobile chase since it worked a lot better in the Batman than it did in "Backdraft"

I know every composer borrows from themselves but he just takes it to a ridicoulous level. he's so talented and yet he chooses to write shallow music instead of do something special. and don't even get me started on his countless shadow writers

use to like Horner too till I found out that he stole about 80% of his music from classical and concert composers.

well I'm done ranting and causing the Zimmer and Horner fans to hate me, I have other people to annoy

The only composer I know and love is James Newton Howard, and only for the wrong reason - Romantic Comedies like "My Best Friend's Wedding". I like how the music really matches the tone and the feel of some of the romatic comedies he has composed music for..

Danny Elfman (for all his work with Burton) Hans Zimmer (for his stuning score for GLADIATOR) John Williams (for Empire of the Sun) J.P.Kaczmarek (for beautiful music in Finding Neverland,and for he is my country-man

All the talk over at my Batman Beyond review has made me eager to talk more about movie music. Off the bat, I'm gonna give up a few of my favorites:

Yoko Kanno for her work on Cowboy Bebop. Goblin for Suspiria and Deep Red Fabio Fabrizzi for his Fulci movies Riz Ortolani for Mondo Carne, Day of Anger, and Cannibal Holocaust Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman for Ravenous and of course, Ennio Moricone and Bernard Herman, for just about everything they ever did.